It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations, 3rd Edition

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The breakthrough framework for executing successful organizational change initiatives – now updated and even more valuable.

• Make sure change initiatives succeed: break through the brain barriers that cause them to fail
• Now includes even more integrated tools, strategies and solutions for overcoming obstacles to improvement
• New cases offer deeper insights into the personal elements of leading strategic change, even in global businesses
• Focuses on what matters most to succeeding with change: helping individuals see the need, make the move, and fight through to the finish

Description

As many as 60% of organizational change initiatives fail. This means that many normally successful, motivated, and determined managers nonetheless struggle to lead change effectively. Most of those leadership failures share a common cause: managers mistakenly believe that organizational change is brought about by changing the organization. The truth is this: organizations change only as much or as fast as individuals change. And, to change individual behavior, you must first change the mental maps guiding that behavior. In It Starts with One, Third Edition, J. Stewart Black identifies the three critical "brain barriers" managers must break through in order to start, deepen, and sustain needed change. With new cases, examples, and tools for executing successful change initiatives, this edition dives even more deeply into the personal aspects of leading strategic change – as well as the unique challenges posed by driving change in global business environments. One step at a time, Black shows how to use their tools and techniques to bring solutions to life -- and transform change from a hope to a profitable reality.

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The Challenge of Leading Strategic Change

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Table of Contents

Preface     xvii
Chapter 1: The Challenge of Leading Strategic Change     1
Chapter 2: Barrier #1: Failure to See     31
Chapter 3: Solutions and Tools for Breaking Through Barrier #1: Helping People See the Need     61
Chapter 4: Barrier #2: Failure to Move     79
Chapter 5: Solutions and Tools for Breaking Through Barrier #2: Helping People Make the Move     95
Chapter 6: Barrier #3: Failure to Finish     113
Chapter 7: Solutions and Tools for Breaking Through Barrier #3: Helping People Fight Through the Finish     129
Chapter 8: Pulling It All Together     147
Chapter 9: Getting Ahead of the Change Curve     175
Index     193

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